Comment by illumaneight on 24/02/2025 at 02:22 UTC

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View submission: Do NOT Sleep on Dungeon Crawler Carl

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Another unpopular opinion. I so wanted to like this. I enjoyed the premise, princess Donut, & the world, but the world building- the descriptions of the game, loot boxes etc- bored the shit out of me. I gave up around page 300.

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Comment by Scouts_Tzer at 24/02/2025 at 21:30 UTC

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For anyone that this resonates with, but is looking for a reason to continue with the book, the amount of “gamification” significantly decreases throughout the series. It’s the worst in the first book, and the item and characters develop descriptions from the AI become less joke-filled nonsense and start becoming much more of an insight on the mind and mental state of the governing AI, its motivations and fears